Ebonos Quotes & Sayings

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Then I circle the pivot point. The point right before the path separates. — Kasie West

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. — Umberto Eco

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. — Vladimir Nabokov

N.V.N.
(translated by Jane Kenyon)
There is a sacred, secret line in loving
which attraction and even passion cannot cross,
even if lips draw near in awful silence
and love tears at the heart.
Friendship is weak and useless here,
and years of happiness, exalted and full of fire,
because the soul is free and does not know
the slow luxuries of sensual life.
Those who try to come near it are insane
and those who reach it are shaken by grief,
So now you know exactly why
my heart beats no faster under your hand. — Anna Akhmatova

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it." — Columbus Short

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters. — P. J. O'Rourke

The Teacher provides Spiritual Energy! Just like roots provide nutrients to the flowers! — Choa Kok Sui

To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give. — Publilius Syrus